The Clouds of Memories

of Cafe and Clouds

Sasuke was staring longingly towards the blue sky with the lingering puffs of white above his head. The weather is clear with some brief winds. A peaceful day, so quite and still. The solitude surrounding the man was giving him the tranquility.

A breeze that passed by was caressing his raven hairs. Then Sasuke closed his eyes. Making way for the winds to take him back afloat through a story long since carved in the niche of his deepest memory.

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The clear and bright morning without winds, had somewhat shifted into a pack of grey clouds ready to shower its buckets of water as the school just rang the last bell for the day. Several students were moving about under the bicycles parking roof of Konoha High School. Crowded and vociferous. Those were the impressions when one was seeing the place.

A young man in black jacket was standing in the outer line of the parking area with a navy blue colored bicycle on his right and black-orange one on his left. His onyx eyes were observing the area before him as he looked for a certain someone amongst the bustling students before the rain managed to fall.

After a while, his eyes found the person. A young man in a rather disheveled uniform, with his bright orange hairs that seemed to poke randomly at many directions, and a set of signature lines that graced his cheeks slightly gave him the resemblance to that of a fox. The man was running straight to his way. By the time that man approached the black-orange bicycle on his side, the young Uchiha smiled thinly.

"It looks like the rain will be quite a downpour this time," said the boy with a flat voice.

"Who cares? Why did you leave me behind?" the orange-haired boy asked with an accusing tone.

"Well, you were doing your cleaning duty and Kakashi-sensei was calling me. Furthermore, what do I gain from waiting for you there if we're to meet up here anyway?" replied the boy calmly.

"Okay, fine. Alibi accepted. Now, let's go! I'm gonna be late," the Uzumaki said as he climbed onto his black-orange bicycle.

"Why don't you skip the work once in a while? Your boss is nice towards you, there's no way he will cut your salary just because you're absent for one day, right?" the young Uchiha suggested as he climbed onto the navy blue bicycle on his right—his bicycle.

"I'm just trying to follow the rules. Why the sudden suggestion anyway? Isn't it good for me? It was you who told me to take part time job in that café. Or maybe you are..." the Uzumaki said as he started to pedal his bicycle exactly where he deliberately left his sentence hanging unfinished.

"Hn?" the young Uchiha was now trying to keep his bicycle up with the one belonged to the youngest Uzumaki.

"You're missing me, huh, Sasuke?" he said with a mischievous smirk, intending to tease the young Uchiha on his side.

The young male called Sasuke could feel his heart beat a little faster than normal. Somehow, the light joke from his bestfriend found a way to perturb his mind and the question left to tickle the content of his heart. The two indeed rarely had anymore time to hang out together since the Uzumaki—Naruto—had started to take a part time job in a small café located quite a distance from their places.

"Hn. I'm not missing you, dobe. It's just the weather is clearly will not turn shiny and bright at this point. Who on earth will want to eat on an outdoor café with these heavy looking clouds?" the raven haired male denied instantly.

The two passed the school gate and turn into the sidewalk for cyclists beside the desolate roadway. Konoha High School was located at the most outer side of Konoha city, the most northen and the most remote area compared to the other corners of Konoha city itself.

The young man called 'dobe' didn't reply to Sasuke's words. Instead, he was pedalling his bicycle onto the roadway, laughing heartily and smiling widely due to the sudden jolt made by his tires which befell onto the lower concrete asphalt.

One second later, a loud voice belonged to Sasuke was heard, calm but still delivered hastily, a giveaway that he was slightly worried, "Hey, Naruto! Don't go into the roadway! It's dangerous! Hey!"

Sasuke raised his voice at the end—was forced to since Naruto decided to increase his speed instead, and even worse, the young male was playing with his course, making a wobble-like trail along the road, leaving Sasuke in a panic state in case his bestfriend skidded above the slippery wet track due to the beginning of raindrops that little by little befalling the earth.

'Tch! Dumbass!' Sasuke cursed silently, while he proceeded to follow Naruto onto the roadway and hasten his pace.

"Hey, Naruto! Wait for me!"